Intel Announces 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest Server CPU from Fab 52 in Arizona

Intel today unveiled its most advanced semiconductor process and previewed Xeon 6+ (code-named Clearwater Forest), its first Intel 18A-based 2nm data center server chip ….

NVIDIA Takes Surprise Stake in Intel

The implications, the possibilities, the sheer surprise of today’s news that NVIDIA has taken a $5 billion stake in Intel has come as a shock to the tech system. Wall Street was staggered as well, boosting Intel stock by more than 30 percent ….

Report: Qualcomm May Return to Data Center AI Chip Market

Qualcomm, the $39 billion chip design company, may return to the data center chip market, according to a story in The Register. “Qualcomm has teased a serious run at the data center market for years and in May CEO Cristiano Amon told the Computex ….

Intel Unveils Dual-track (Performance/Efficiency) Xeon Roadmap through 2024

At Intel’s investor day event in San Francisco yesterday, the company unveiled a dual-track the roadmap for its Xeon data center chip through 2024 – one track emphasizing high performance (P-core Sapphire Rapids), the other energy efficiency (E-core Sierra Forest). Intel’s future generation architecture strategy will move from two optimized platforms into a single commonone. […]